[Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable says of Lilith:
Lilith: A female demon, probably of Babylonian origin, supposed to haunt the wilderness in stormy weather, and to be especially dangerous to children. The name is born from a Semitic root meaning "night" which was the special time of this demon's activities. In Rabbinical writings she is supposed to have been the first wife of ADAM. She is referred to in Is. xxxiv, 14, as the 'screech-owl' in the Authorized Version; in the Revised Version as the "nightmonster"; and in the Vulgate as LAMIA. A superstitious cult of Lilith persisted among Jews until the 7th century. Goethe introduced her in his Faustand Rossetti in his Eden Bower made the serpent the instrument of Lilith's vengence--
"Help, sweet snake, sweet lover of Lilith! (Alas this hour!) And let God learn how I loved and hated Men in the image of God created."]
He stands by a middle-aged woman, with a very pale skin who is quietly talking to herself. He discovers she is blind and asking for a guide.
Peter Gabriel:"I'm in this chamber with 32 doors, -- no, no 'Knives' -- and there's this woman, a blind woman. Lilywhite Lilith is actually her proper name, and she says to me, she says 'Can you help me?'"
The chamber was in confusion -- all the voices shouting loud. 
I could only just hear, a voice quite near say,
"Please help me through the crowd"
'Said if I helped her thru' she could help me too, but I could see that she was wholly blind.
But from her pale face and her pale skin, a moonlight shined.
"What's the use of a guide if you got nowhere to go" asks Rael. "I've got somewhere to go," she replies "if you take me through the noise, I'll show you. I'm a creature of the caves and I follow the way the breezes blow." He leads her across the room and they leave the crowd, who dismiss their departure as certain to fail.
Peter Gabriel:"How could I resist a proposition like that? So we held clammy hands, and I took her through all the people in the room; and she took me through one of the doors into a passageway I hadn't seen before."
Lilywhite Lilith, She gonna take you thru' the tunnel of night.
Lilywhite Lilith, She gonna lead you right.
When I'd led her through the people, the angry noise began to grow.
She said "Let me feel the way the breezes blow, and I'll show you where to go."
When through the door, the woman leads Rael down the tunnel. The light of the chamber soon fades and despite her confident step Rael often stumbles in the darkness. After a long walk they arrive in what Rael judges to be a big round cave, and she speaks a second time asking him to sit down. It feels like a cold stone throne. "Rael, sit here. They will come for you soon. Don't be afraid." And failing to explain any more she walks off.
Peter Gabriel:"This went down a series of tunnels into a very large round dark cave. She left me on my own. I was sitting on this wet stone throne,"
So I followed her into a big round cave, she said "They're coming for you, now don't be afraid."
Then she sat me down on a cold stone throne, carved in jade.
Lilywhite Lilith, She gonna take you thru' the tunnel of night.
Lilywhite Lilith, She gonna lead you right.
He faces his fear once again.
She leaves me in my darkness, I have to face my fear,
A tunnel is lit up to the left of him, and he begins to shake. As it grows brighter, he hears a non-metallic whirring sound. The light is getting painfully bright, reflecting as white off the walls until his vision is lost in a sort of snow blindness.
Peter Gabriel: "And I heard these strange noises coming into the room on my left: a whirring sound. Two golden globes began to hover into the cave filling it with an incredibly white bright light -- 'I was amazed at the whiteness!': Mrs. Janet H. of Bournemouth --"
And the darkness closes in on me, I can hear a whirring sound growling near. I can see the corner of the tunnel, Lit up by whatever's coming here. Two golden globes float into the room And a blaze of white light fills the air.
